The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 58
‘No, no; those are frogs!’ said the little kitchenmaid.
Who acts: frogs · What happens: be, say · To what, where: frogs, little kitchenmaid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 those | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 frogs | det |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 frogs | cop |
| 8 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 frogs | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 frogs | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kitchenmaid | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kitchenmaid | amod |
| 14 | kitchenmaid | kitchenmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that frogs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | that frogs | the little kitchenmaid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kitchenmaid=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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